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So, you might have heard me mention this before but my significant other has Crohn's Disease. Mostly it's a manageable disease. Inconvenient at times, (Who gets the bathroom first? She does, always!), and downright annoying at others, (What do you mean I need to stop the car? We just left the rest stop 3 miles ago?!). For a good long while, she's done really well taking Imuran to manage the disease. But now, the Imuran, it isn't working.
After trying to ignore what was looking like a Crohn's disease flare I called the GI doctor, (usually referred to as The Dark Lady of Digestion), to make her an appointment. May 31, yikes! A few days later there was no ignoring the flare so TW called the doctor's office herself and that started the ball rolling... downhill... full speed ahead!
Blood work! Stool sample! Steroid enemas! Prednisone! Potassium! B12 injections! The fun never ends around here! The Dark Lady of Digestion knows how to throw a great poop party. Except she also informed us that it's time to try another maintenance drug since the Imuran isn't working.
Remicade or Humira. Those are the choices. And oh what horrible choices they are. Surely there is something else. But no, really there isn't. TW has tried everything else!
So what do you do when you have two choices and neither choice is good? No, it's not that neither choice is good it is that both choices are bad - really, really bad.
Do you think we should just flip a coin? Ugh!
~~Denise
Flamingo House Happenings and Fast Times @ Homeschool High
